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Possible Battlefield 1942 Bug

A few weeks ago I decided to install BF1942 back on my system and play some Desert Combat (for a change of pace from playing BF2 all the time). I installed with my CD's, installed all the patches, installed DC .7 and installed DC Final.

My system would randomly freeze up (usually when joining a server or switching to the next map). I would be able to "Alt-Tab" out and see an unfamilar process running called "BlackScreen.exe". The exe file also exists in the BF1942 directory. From doing research around the web it appears this file is related to SafeDisc (the copy protection that BF1942 uses).

In the past (pre DT 4) I had never had an issue with mounting my BF1942 and playing the game. The only way to stop BF1942 from 'freezing' up in this fashion was to disable DT4 and use the physical CD. Other games (such as the newer BF2) mount just fine have not issues. I hadn't seen this particular issue before (doing a Blackscreen.exe search on DTools Website didn't yield any results).

Prior to disabling D-Tools I had uninstalled, reinstalled, redownloaded all the patches and mods (to ensure something hadn't gotten corrupt) but it all yielded the same 'freezing' results until I disabled D-Tools 4.03.

The point of this setup was so I could play in online games with my friends here (we all have our own keys), this has worked flawlessly in the past. We stopped playing, and now we're trying to play it again.

After playing one game, the game will just go back to the Windows desktop, and you CANNOT go back into the game without having either restarted the computer, OR remounting the image.

I find it odd that these machines, with totally different setups are having the exact same problem. First the images were made using CloneCD a long time ago, and I remade them with A120% using the safedisc 2/3 profile. I also used curerom with these new images, and the problem still remains.

I haven't yet, because for other games using a more current version of SafeDisc, I haven't had to because of the alternate nVidia IDE drivers I use (e.g. Civ 4 mounts fine without the use of SDHide....while my friend with a VIA chipset is forced to use SDHide).